Jets roar over Roslindale in advance of a hearing on jets roaring over Roslindale and other neighborhoods
By adamg on Sat, 04/11/2015 - 9:43am
A City Council committee meets Monday with FAA officials to discuss changes in Logan take-off patterns that some councilors say has meant added noise over a stretch of Boston from the South End to Hyde Park.
As if to advertise the hearing, jets taking off from Logan began flying over Roslindale and neighboring areas early this morning. As of 9:40 a.m., they are still coming.
The hearing of the council's Special Committee on Transportation, Public Infrastructure and Investment begins at 1:30 p.m. in the council's fifth-floor chambers in City Hall.
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Dorchester feels your pain.
Dorchester feels your pain.
Also in Dorchester
Small planes at 3-5 AM. They may be small but they're flying low, and they make noise.
Notes from Public Hearings of Committees.
Notes that are public are taken by Council Central Staff and by Councilors' staffs during Public Hearings of Committees of Boston City Council and are available, request at any Councilor's web link for example http://www.cityofboston.gov/contact/?id=12
It's a more open Boston City Council when requests are submitted for public documents and the documents posted online.
Ya know ...
You could request those notes and then post them on one of your blogs so people could download them.
I love when Adam tries to control The Zak........
It has to be a tough task
Blogging a pdf attachment by email?
What free blogging is there where a pdf email attachment can be posted on the blog by emailing it?... without downloading to the computer, without giving a 3rd party account access.
Try growing up on a hill
in Beachmont. You can literally wave to the pilots from your third floor window.
Get used to it.
People move to neighborhoods
People move to neighborhoods like revere or east boston knowing that will be an issue and the price of real estate reflects that. That is not the case with these other neighborhoods.
Well, gee!
In the spirit of economic equality, those who can afford it will now know what it feels like to have the fear of a 757 potentially crashing into your much more valuable neighborhood.
Move to the country
or adapt. Having a busy airport is part of living in a thriving city and if the planes don't fly over Roslindale, then what, they should go over Hyde Park or Brookline? Things change sometimes.
Exnay on the untrykay
A while back I would skate on a pond over in Dover (technically illegally, as I am a nonresident). The calm of the cold country night was routinely broken by the sound of jets overhead.
Besides bucolic burgs bordering Hanscom Field
Concord, Lexington, Bedford and Lincoln get the music of aircraft, both large and small. Admittedly, this is not anything like the frequency of jets using Logan, but it's there.
And they've hosted the concorde
Back in the day, in addition to fighters and transport planes.
Planes gotta fly over someone
I know they fly over Roslindale, but they've never bothered me (admittedly I do not live on the top of a hill, but then again the view from my house is not as good as those on the top of hills.)
I was also on the phone with someone in Winthrop once who had to stop the conversation for a jumbo jet's final approach. Yes, he let me hear it over the phone.
The Jets ARE Disruptive
I live in Rozzie and was woken by the low flying jets early this Saturday am. In previous years, it was bad, but not this bad...it seems as if the jets are flying lower and in more rapid succession. Forget having a window open on a beautiful spring or summer day...the noise is disruptive to life and exhausting.
My best guess is that those making these decisions that so affect our quality of life do not live in these neighborhoods, or even in Boston, so we are expendable for their ongoing profits. Decisions on where jets fly are definitely an issue of equity.
Decisions on how and where jets fly
should be principally based on navigational and air traffic needs, and not so much on self-centered people who cry "OMG, we bought a house under an established flight path for a major airport, and we're suddenly shocked to find there are planes flying overhead."
And if your "quality of life" is so important, then what is the solution you're offering that will still insure safe and efficent miovement of the air traffic?
This offer not valid
In Kennebunkport, where George HRH Bush enjoys a very large No Fly Zone over his quaint little cottage.
Remind me again
about how that no fly zone adversely impacts the major international airport adjacent to Kennebunkport.
West Roxbury, Weld St by VFW and South Brookline
They've been roaring over here in the early morning for some time now.
Noise https://groups.yahoo.com/group/noisefreeamerica
Noise
https://groups.yahoo.com/group/noisefreeamerica
https://www.massport.com/environment/environmental-reporting/noise-abate...
Compare the motorcycles set at a deafening level !
http://www.cityofboston.gov/boardsandcommissions/default.aspx?boardid=34
Booming loudspeakers in vehicles! Booming loudspeakers of neighborhood parties/events . Deafening booming loudspeakers of civic events, for example at City Hall Plaza
http://www.noisefree.org/
South End alll day
They were flying over the South End all morning. And all afternoon. And all evening, but it seems to be quiet...for now? Or maybe I've just habituated. The South End actually seems to have been in the flight path al lot over the past couple months -- more than usual.
Planes were also exceptionally low this afternoon.
Yeah well the crashes are
Yeah well the crashes are even worse...one in Dorchester - Londsdale Street 1987 and another just down the street in Mattapan on Lorna Road in 1990. Both small plane crashes and i think after that small planes were prohibited from flying over the heavily populated neighborhoods...there are videos on YouTube